The federal judge who ruled last week that President Bush’s eavesdropping program was unconstitutional is a trustee and an officer of a group that has given at least $125,000 to the American Civil Liberties Union in Michigan, a watchdog group said Tuesday.

Taylor’s association with the ACLU may not have been a cause for disqualification from the case, but legal ethicists agree she should have disclosed the connection. Frankly, I don’t see how a trustee for the ACLU could have seen herself an unbiased arbiter of “ACLU vs. NSA.”

More good than you understand. There'll be quite a few more "idiot rulings" between now and 2008. And plenty of followup "idiot affirmations."

The game is over, haven't you realized it? If not, you wouldn't be the only one. Just look how confused Mr. Capital, Political Capital is. Sitting there with Baltic Avenue, wondering where his Monopoly went.

"When people see a strong pony and a weak pony, they will by nature prefer the strong pony. Except the Supreme Court, who picked the horse's ass."--Terrorist and Lamont campaign supporter Osama bin Laden